Father tasered while holding newborn.

[wombat2u2004]

Thay should not have done that while he was holding the baby. Two
security people surely could detain him & remove the baby before dealing
with the arrest or whatever of the guy. The baby's safety should come first.

Right on Lizbud.....gotta agree with you 100% on that one.
Wom

[RICHARD]

There's always the baton to the fontenel (I know that's spelled wrong). or the scuffle where the baby gets crushed or neck broken. There's mace in the kids eyes, lungs and skin.

MY personal favorite is the dad using the kid as a shield from the .40 caliber slug.

The Thomas A Swift Electric Rifle is a tactical 'weapon'.

If this idiot (I waited one day) refused to go back to the nurse's station and get this thing straightened out god only knows what he would have done...
His error was in standing off with the sec guards and not following hospital protocol-

[momoffuzzyfaces]

The baby is being put in foster care because there is a history of abuse apparently.

[lizbud]

The baby is being put in foster care because there is a history of abuse apparently.

Sad. makes me wonder where he planned to take the baby.

[RICHARD]

Sad. makes me wonder where he planned to take the baby.

Hmmm,

I wonder what the fate of the child had been if not for a couple of bullying security guards?

A 'real' father would have not put any child into that situation.

[caseysmom]

Strike me with lightening I agree with you Richard

[Catty1]

In another story, the dad apparently said the baby was 'shaking' and had been injured. Since she is in foster care, I don't think he was able to make much of a judgement. JMO
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By Juan A. Lozano | Associated Press
August 15, 2007

HOUSTON - In a confrontation captured on videotape, a hospital security guard fired a stun gun to stop a defiant father from taking home his newborn, sending both man and child crashing to the floor.

Now William Lewis says his baby girl suffers from head trauma because she was dropped.

Lewis, 30, said the April 13 episode began after he and his wife felt mistreated by staff at the Woman's Hospital of Texas and they decided to leave. Hospital employees told him doctors would not allow it, but Lewis picked up the baby and strode to a bank of elevators.

The elevators would not move because wristband sensors on each baby shut them off if anyone takes an infant without permission.

Lewis, who gave the video to The Associated Press, said his daughter landed on her head, but it cannot be seen on the video. He said the baby continues to suffer ill effects from the fall.

It was not clear whether the baby received any jolt.

Child Protective Services has custody of the baby because of a history of domestic violence between Lewis and his wife, Jacqueline Gray. Agency spokeswoman Estella Olguin said the infant does not appear to be suffering any health problems from the fall.

David Boling, an off-duty Houston police officer working security at the hospital, and another security guard can be seen on the surveillance video arriving at the elevators and trying to talk with Lewis. Lewis appears agitated as he walks around the elevators holding his daughter in his right arm.

About a minute later, Boling can be seen casually standing near Lewis, not looking in his direction, when he suddenly raises the Taser and fires it at Lewis, who was still holding his daughter.

Lewis drops to the floor. The other guard, who has not been identified, scoops up the baby and gives her to the child's mother.

In a statement, the hospital said Lewis was hostile and uncooperative toward staff members who were trying to find out his relationship to the infant when they saw him trying to leave. Neither Lewis or Gray had indicated they wanted a discharge, the statement said.

Lewis was arrested and charged with endangering a child. A grand jury in May declined to indict him on that charge, but charged him with retaliation, accusing him of making threats against Boling.